Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy. — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
“[...] because in that faggot town only a man like him could prevent the tragedy.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is not born in the destiny of a bad man, but rather destiny born into a tragic world.” — J.E. Plemons Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Because I want to know if I'm allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your… — J.B. McGee Copy Share Image
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Where [God] is, tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution are not the absolutely final things.” — William James Copy Share Image
An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and… — Timothy Foote Copy Share Image
The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don't have a process… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing I can say without a doubt, it is that tragedy can make great music. Every single song… — Muse en Lystrala Copy Share Image
Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image